Harvester-reel



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W. P; HALE. HARVESTLR REEL.

Patented Oct. 25, 1887.

, I -INVENTORY WITNESSES By fltforneys.

UNITED STATES PATENT owes.

WILLIAM P. HALE, OF BROCKPORT, NEW YORK.

HARVESTER-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,068, dated October25, 1887.

Application filed May 17, 1886.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. HALE, of Brockport, in the county ofMonroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Harvester-Reels, of which the following is aspecification. My object is to provide for preventing injury of the reelin event of its contact with an unyielding obstacle; and my improvementsconsist, as hereinafter specified by the claims, in a peculiar way ofmounting the reel-head 'so that it is yieldingly held in frictionalcontact with its driver.

In the accompanying drawings,which show a suitable embodiment of myimprovements, Figure l is a plan or top view, with dotted linesindicating the position of the cutters. Fig. 2 is a view, partly in rearelevation and partly in section, on the line 2 of Fig. 3, with partsbroken away. Fig. 3 is a side elevation. Fig. 4 is a plan viewrepresenting a modifica tion.

A reel-post, A, inclined as usual, and suitably supported bybeingsecured at its lower end at or near the inner front corner of thegrain-platform of the harvester, supports a horizontal reel shaft, B, byway of a carryingbracket made in sections 0 D. The reel-shaft passesthrough bearing-arms E E of the section 0 of the carrying-bracket, andthe section D of this bracket has arms F F, by which it engages thereel-post. The reel-shaft-carrying section 0 is adj ustably connectedwith the section D, so that it may be set to properly support the shaft.

A reel-head, G, having a flaring or funnellike hub, H, is mounted torotate about the reelshaft, and a reel-driver, I, is also mounted torotate about the reel-shaft. As shown, this driver is a bevel-toothedgear-wheel; but ohviously the driver may be of any suitable equivalentconstruction adapted to be rotated in well-known way. The reel-drivershown is to be rotated by a bevel-pinion engaging its teeth andsupported and actuated in suitable way. The hub of the driver comesagainst or close to one of the arms E of the section 0 of thereel-carrying bracket, and at the opposite side or face of the driver itis provided with an annular' peripheral flange, t. The reelhead G isformed with an annular face-flange,

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9, at its periphery to correspond with the flange 2' cf the driver, andwhen these faces are parallel with each other they may be separated soas to leave a slight space between the face-flanges of the driver andthe reel-head when the hub of this head is in contact with the cross-pinJ at one end of the reel-shaft. This pin and another detachablecross-pin, K, at the other end of the shaft, provide for keeping theparts in place while admitting of their removal. As in this instanceshown, the reel bats or beaters Lare connected with the reelhead by theinclined supporting and bracing arms M and N, as presently to bedescribed.

It will be seen that by separating the reelhead and its driver by aslight space between them, and having the hub of the head flaring,

as shown, so as to have bearing-contact with the reel-shaft at its outeror smaller end only, provision is made for the slight tilting or cantingof the head on its shaft by thesveight of the reel and itsnatural-tendency to swing toward the reel-post. In this way the upperportions of the faces of the head and its driver are separated and theirlower portions brought in contact, with sufficient friction between themto insure the rotation of the reel with the driver under ordinarycircumstances, whilethem, and thus with greater certainty guard againsttheir inopportune disengagement.

The reel-heaters, as represented, are so arranged that instead ofapproaching the platform and cutters parallel thereto they are inclined,so that each beater, while pressing the grain back to the cutters, isnearer them at its inner end'thanat its outer end, the grain being actedupon first next the inner or heel end of the cutters, as will readily beunderstood from inspection of Fig. 1, in which the dotted lines 0 P areintended to show the position of ICU the cutters, the line 0 indicatingthe points of the cutters and the line P their rear ends. Each beater issupported by connection with the reel-head by two arms. M and N. Thelong arm M is secured to the beater near its outer end, and the shortarm N is secured to it near its inner end. Each arm M is secured to thereel-head by way of a short inclined socket-arm, m, extending from theperiphery of the head, and a bolt and nut, and each arm N is secured tothe inclined outer surface of the head by a socket, a, and a bolt andnut.

By the above construction it will be seen that the inclined beaters actupon the grain J in such way as not only to force it into the cuttersand back upon the platformcarrier when cut, but also to inclinethe grainslightly toward the outer end of the platform, so that as the stalksfall upon the carrier the heads are farther from the inner end of theplatform than are the butts, and consequently the butt-ends the innerend of the platform in straighter and better condition for binding thanwhen the cut stalks are forced directly backward upon the carrier.

I claim as of my own invention 1. The combination of the reel'shaft,horizontal, or nearly so, the reel-driver, and the i reel-head rotatedby frictional contact with the driver, and having the hub adapted torock or to be tilted in a plane transverse to that of its revolution,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the reel-shaft, horizontal, or nearly so, thereel-driver having the peripheral face-flange, the reel-head having theperipheral flange and the flaring hub, the reel-boaters, and thesupporting and bracing arms conneetingthem with the reel-head,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub scribed my name.

\VILLIAM P. HALE.

\Vitnesses:

E. TARBOX,

WM. F. Ross.

